If anyone runs into this popup, make sure your uBlock Origin is up-to-date, and that you don’t have any other adblock extensions installed (disable the one in Enhancer for YouTube as well). Then, make sure you clear your filter lists’ cache in uBlock, and update them. This should allow you to block the popup. If it comes back again after a few days, repeat.
did you read the post
I did. Just thought I’d pop this here anyways, especially given the title.
cool.
Also sorry for the harsh tone, I didn’t really mean it
All g, not a problem.
If they can figure out how to enable the camera on my cameraless pc, that’s just impressive.
I don’t even use a proper monitor I use a 6 year old budget tv screen. I see no camera lens on that thing.
It’s not about a camera, but I have read something about using a hard drive as a microphone by detecting the vibrations of the head. Here is a short article I found about this: https://hackaday.com/2019/03/13/hackers-turn-hard-drive-into-microphone-that-can-listen-in-on-your-computers-fan-whine/
The next thing after DRM will be ARM (Attention Rights Management). The camera will be used to verify that you are paying attention to the ads, otherwise no content for you.
Youtube already has ARM! If you watch a playlist and go AFK youll get a “are you still watching?” message and the video pauses
Or they just make you take a quiz after the ad. If you get any questions wrong, then you have to watch another ad.
Please drink verification can
Not trying to make it sound like it wouldn’t be a really bad thing but it would be pretty easy to circumvent. Just emulate a webcam that only shows a static image of some random dude staring into the camera. That one image of Linus would be perfect for that.
Unless they check to see if the image is moving, which in the basic case would be easy to do. Of course, that can be defeated by substituting the still image with a short loop (presumably edited to eliminate any discontinuities), but that just escalates the arms race. Eventually, using an ad-funded website would involve countering one of your GPU cores to run a machine-learning model for authenticating camera video, and that’s just the price, along with accepting tracking cookies and disabling ad blockers.
This is how the ADHD Freedom Fighters are born. One day, we will cast off the shackles of
The will to finish a sentence is weak with this one
